This study extends previous recreational demand research by defining an annual portfolio of recreational trips as the elemental alternative. There are three distinct advantages to this approach. First, identifying an ...

This study has two objectives. The first objective is to address the issue of management versus owner control of New Zealand public listed companies. Specifically the focus is on the extent to which shareholders in New ...

This paper presents a dynamic bioeconomic model of vertebrate pest management which incorporates a behavioural trait in the target population known as toxin or bait avoidance. Pests who exhibit such avoidance after exposure ...

There is growing interest and evidence in the New Zealand education sector of the application of marketing principles and techniques. This has been brought about, in part, by a declining birth rate and a more market-driven ...

The deregulation of New Zealand's retail energy markets was expected to provide energy efficiency gains through increased competition between demand-side and supply-side options. This has lead to energy efficiency gains ...

The objective of this study was to develop a simple and flexible linear programming model to optimise pastoral deer production systems. It is the author's aim to use the model as a tool for professional farm consultancy ...

The discovery of toxic waste and contaminated land in New Zealand has drawn attention to the problem of successfully remediating land. While other nations have been managing contaminated land for some years, New Zealand ...

Contemporary literature, newspaper articles and seminars have focused on farm succession in recent times and have upheld the general belief that farm succession is a common and desired occurrence. Farmers, from the lower ...